The Clan of the Cave Bear Summary

The story concerns a young girl named Ayla who is orphaned by a natural disaster and then adopted by a group known as the Clan. Ayla is very different from the Clan: physically, she is blond and blue-eyed and the people in the Clan are stocky and dark; she is expressive, sensitive, and smart and they are dour, plodding, and cold. Historians and anthropologists immediately reacted to Auel's book, maintaining that her assumptions...

Jean M. Auel Biographies (1)

With thirty-four million books in print in twenty-nine languages by 2000, Oregon writer Jean M. Auel has become a worldwide publishing sensation with her unlikely "Earth's Children" series about life ...
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